When I was there 14 months ago, that dealer had a $5,000 "Added Markup" sticker on most of his new cars on the lot, including the one LEAF that was there and for sale. If that's still the case, small wonder that they're not moving.

Boomer23 wrote:When I was there 14 months ago, that dealer had a $5,000 "Added Markup" sticker on most of his new cars on the lot, including the one LEAF that was there and for sale. If that's still the case, small wonder that they're not moving.

Depending on the options, that's about 13% cost add-on. From my days living on isolated islands around the US that falls in line with an "island price markup". I don't know the shipping intricacies of Maui vs Oahu but that doesn't seem too outrageous a starting point for haggling.

Even though a LEAF seems well suited for a small island, having 14 LEAFs at a dealership seems risky to me as I'm not sure how many people on Maui that can afford to pay that much for a car.

I don't think they will have too much of a problem selling them. As of end of March there were 38 Leafs, 9 Volts & 2 iMiEVs on Maui. The dealer has been marking them up quite a bit, but that doesn't mean they are getting what they ask. Although, before the State $4500 rebate funds ran out it probably was easier to get more.